From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>,
"Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] test-lib: use individual lsan dir for --stress runs
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 09:08:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqcyh9yu7f.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241230042401.GA113400@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sun, 29 Dec 2024 23:24:01 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> When storing output in test-results/, we usually give each numbered run
> in a --stress set its own output file. But we don't do that for storing
> LSan logs, so something like:
>
> ./t0003-attributes.sh --stress
>
> will have many scripts simultaneously creating, writing to, and deleting
> the test-results/t0003-attributes.leak directory. This can cause logs
> from one run to be attributed to another, spurious failures when
> creation and deletion race, and so on.
>
> This has always been broken, but nobody noticed because it's rare to do
> a --stress run with LSan (since the point is for the code to run quickly
> many times in order to hit races). But if you're trying to find a race
> in the leak sanitizing code, it makes sense to use these together.
Makes sense.
> We can fix it by using $TEST_RESULTS_BASE, which already incorporates
> the stress job suffix.
Thanks. Queued.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-30 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-30 4:23 [PATCH 0/5] fixing thread races in linux-leaks CI Jeff King
2024-12-30 4:24 ` [PATCH 1/5] test-lib: use individual lsan dir for --stress runs Jeff King
2024-12-30 4:34 ` Jeff King
2024-12-30 17:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-12-30 4:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] Revert "index-pack: spawn threads atomically" Jeff King
2024-12-30 4:28 ` [PATCH 3/5] thread-utils: introduce optional barrier type Jeff King
2024-12-30 7:03 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-01-01 18:28 ` Jeff King
2025-01-03 6:45 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-12-30 4:29 ` [PATCH 4/5] index-pack: work around LSan threading race with barrier Jeff King
2024-12-30 4:30 ` [PATCH 5/5] grep: " Jeff King
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